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Rache Gravett and Keith Harrison on Their Wilding Project the Field, Strelley
Sun 28 Jan 2024The Field, Strelley is a wilding project run by Rache Gravett and Keith Harrison, environmental advocates and the previous owners of Nottingham Climbing Centre. A journey that began with tree planting, is now evolving into a fully fledged community organisation, creating spaces for both the wildlife and the humans of Nottinghamshire…
From Light Night to Comedy in the Caves, Here’s What’s on in Nottingham This Week 29 January - 4 February
Sun 28 Jan 2024As February arrives, check out what you can do in Notts this week...
Notts Shots: January 2024
Sat 27 Jan 2024Here are some snaps our talented photographers have taken this month...
We Speak to Festival Booker Joe Patten Ahead of This Year’s Beat the Streets
Sat 27 Jan 2024Tomorrow, Beat the Streets Festival will return to the streets of Nottingham. We spoke to festival booker Joe Patten to gain his perspective on the festival’s continued success since 2018...
In Photos: The Sleeping Souls, Sean McGohan & Hannah Rose at Rescue Rooms
Sat 27 Jan 2024Without Frank Turner in the mix, Oxford alt/rockers The Sleeping Souls take their new tunes from Just Before The World Starts Burning out on the road for the first time...
Music Reviews: January 2024
Fri 26 Jan 2024This month, we review music from Simon Waldram, Airport Dad, Pretty Windows, Chloe Rodgers, Penny Moon, 1st Blood and Armton...
We Chat to Lucy Crisp Ahead of the BBC Introducing Showcase at Metronome at the End of This Month
Fri 26 Jan 2024Lucy Crisp is a truly inspiring local musician, who lives in Alfreton, studied at Confetti, and has overcome a number of challenges to pursue her musical career. She tells us more about her music ahead of her performance at the BBC Introducing showcase on 31 January...
Gig Review: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal at The Bodega
Fri 26 Jan 2024Commonly heralded as the father of the emo rap genre as a result of founding GothBoiClique, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal is the creative persona of Scranton singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam McIlwee, who brings his deep 808’s and moody synthesizers to Nottingham’s Bodega…
Notts Libraries Partner With the British Library for Fantasy Season
Thu 25 Jan 2024Working in tandem with the British Library and their current exhibition, ‘Fantasy: Realms of Imagination’, Inspire are bringing a whole programme of fanciful and folkloric entertainment to our city...
We Learn More About Nottingham Hackspace - The Place to Go if You Want to Make Weird and Wonderful Things
Thu 25 Jan 2024Tucked away behind Sneinton Market in a Victorian factory building, Nottingham Hackspace is a place for makers, inventors, tinkerers, crafters, board game enthusiasts, robot designers and, well, anyone who fancies trying their hand at making weird and wonderful things. Set over two floors, the building is home to all manner of machinery and supplies that anyone can access for a monthly membership fee. We went along to speak to members Aaron, Steve and Douglas to chat about the organisation’s history and how people can get involved…
Left Brian: January 2024
Thu 25 Jan 2024As grateful as I am for the chance to write about Forest in LeftLion each month, we seem to be in a period of the club’s history where even a daily column would struggle to cover all the various triumphs, tragedies, scandals and melodramas. So how to do this past month justice and resist the siren call of the bullet point list? Strap in, here goes...
Ballet Review: Sleeping Beauty at Royal Concert Hall
Thu 25 Jan 2024A traditional Fairy Tale ballet to dispel those January blues...
Festival Review: Backyard at The Bodega
Thu 25 Jan 2024Forming one of the best line-ups seen this year, seven bands took to the stage to bless the Nottingham music scene, while raising money for a great cause…
Gig Review: Fabio & Grooverider at Rock City
Thu 25 Jan 2024It sounds a little bit crazy: combining drum and bass with a live orchestra; putting that show on in rock venues around the country; inviting multiple MCs and DJs to an already crowded stage… but perhaps the best ideas are...
Artist Harry Mayston on Having His Work Exhibited at Surface Gallery
Wed 24 Jan 2024After graduating with a degree in fine art from Loughborough University, artist Harry Mayston went on to have his work exhibited in Surface Gallery’s recent exhibition Vessel after he, by chance, was asked to give the team behind the gallery a tour of the Loughborough School of Design and Creative Arts degree show. Following the exhibition, he tells us more about the nature of his piece Blue Things, which was made up of 76 cyanotype prints, and the plans he has for the future of his art practice…
Theatre Review: And Then There Were None at Theatre Royal
Wed 24 Jan 2024A new theatre adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie whodunnit. The original novel is the world's best-selling mystery and with over 100 million copies sold, one of the best-selling books of all time...
Theatre Interview: Witness for the Prosecution at the National Justice Museum
Wed 24 Jan 2024A courtroom drama performed in a real courtroom. Another great idea from local theatre company Your Chance Productions. Darren Paul Taylor and Connor Thomas, two of the show's stars, take LeftLion behind the curtain...
Holocaust Memorial Weekend 2024 at The National Holocaust Museum
Wed 24 Jan 2024This coming weekend, 27 and 28 January, The National Holocaust Museum opens its doors for what will doubtless be a powerful commemoration...
Motion for the Ocean: Nottingham City Council Votes to Back Campain Protecting Waterways
Wed 24 Jan 2024Nottingham City Council backs ambitious Motion for the Ocean to protect and improve local rivers and our ocean...
Notts' Hidden Library Could Be Expanding
Tue 23 Jan 2024Bromley House library, a subscription library founded over two hundred years ago, has just secured £70,000 to explore expanding its premises...
Director Aaron Trinder on His Documentary ‘Free Party: A Folk History’ - Which Features Nottingham's Own DiY Soundsystem
Tue 23 Jan 2024Free Party: A Folk History is a timely DIY indie film that follows the birth of the UK's free party movement from the late eighties and early nineties and the social, political and cultural impact it's had on our present times, with appearances from the founders of Nottingham’s very own DiY Soundsystem - but those of you who were lucky enough to go down to Broadway Cinema’s screening of the film back in November will already know this, of course. Director Aaron Trinder tells us about the process of obtaining footage for the documentary from a time before mobile phones and his own experiences of the free party movement…
Film Review: The Holdovers
Tue 23 Jan 2024A grouchy teacher and a rebellious teen have to make the best of a bad situation when they are forced to spend Christmas alone at their prestigious boarding school...
Gig Review: Spanish Love Songs at Rescue Rooms
Mon 22 Jan 2024Spanish Love Songs are a band with some serious momentum on their side, so we went to see first-hand how they’ve gone from opening act to cult heroes in less than six months…
Gig Review: Bury Tomorrow at Rock City
Mon 22 Jan 2024Bury Tomorrow took to Rock City for a headline gig which transformed the entire venue into a momentous mosh pit…
We Chat to the Creators of the Upcoming Punge Fest at The Chapel
Mon 22 Jan 2024You've heard of punk and grunge, but have you heard of punge? There's no better way to get to know the genre taking the local music scene by storm than by attending the upcoming Punge Fest. We caught up with the creators of the event to find out what you can expect from an evening of punge rock...